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And they've prevented hundreds of millions of people from going with a different OS, thus eliminating potential threats.

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Unfortunately. I think if the Chinese government forced/encouraged everyone to go Linux a long time ago, instead of having to pirate Windows, the Linux ecosystem of programs would be much richer, too. And OEMs wouldn't release 99% of their machines with Windows on them by default.

This way we would've had competition on the desktop and in the browser market way before Android and iOS started appearing on tablets.

They tried and failed:

"Once the world's second-largest Linux distributor, Red Flag Software has shuttered reportedly due to mismanagement and after owing employees months in unpaid wages.

China's state-funded answer to global software giants like Microsoft, the Chinese company filed for liquidation over the weekend..." (2014)

http://www.zdnet.com/article/chinas-home-grown-linux-os-shut...

Only if linux would work out of the box, no driver issues, no need to change files with root... more user friendly.. They decided to make linux for the tech people

Well, this is partly true, in that "they" decided to make Linux for themselves, and they were tech people. But a lot of the out of the box problem with drivers are out of the control of the people making the kernel -- device manufacturers guard the design of their devices, and thus they're the only ones who can write the necessary drivers. And with Linux having a smaller share of the commodity PC market than Windows, Windows gets most of the resources devoted to writing drivers.

Either way, with linux I have to waste a lot of time to make it work, with windows, just works. At least this happens to me.

Are you trolling?

No, for sure. I tried multiple times to like linux, but everytime makes me hate it. Yes, more than windows.

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